The ramblings of a serial head-shaver
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Dead Horse
Dakota Native American tribal wisdom, passed on from generation to generation, says:"When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount and get a different horse."However, in government and corporate Africa , more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:1. Buying a stronger whip.2. Changing riders.3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.5. Lowering the standards so that the dead horse can be included.6. Reclassifying the dead horse as 'living impaired'.7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse.8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.9. Providing additional funding and / or training to increase dead horse's performance.10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overheads and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses. And of course…13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position, so that some other horse does the job on it’s behalf! If you understand the above, then you are obviously residing in Africa
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The Importance of Proof-Reading …
A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand.
He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up! In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies. The head monk, says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son." He goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are held as archives in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot . . . So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing. We missed the R!
We missed the R!
We missed the R!" His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is cryinguncontrollably. The young monk asks the old abbot, "What's wrong, father?" With a choking voice, the old abbot replies, "The word was… "CELEBRATE!!!"
